Re: what can I do for debian installer for Alpha?
Neil Roeth <neil@debian.org> writes:
> On Oct 19, Goswin von Brederlow (brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) wrote:
> > Neil Roeth <neil@debian.org> writes:
> >
> > > It booted, but died very early, while trying to mount the ramdisk, rd/0. (If
> > > this sounds familiar, it's because I posted it to debian-alpha.) Any ideas?
> > > I'm still looking into this one.
> > >
> > > RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384k size 1024k blocksize
> > > .
> > > .
> > > .
> > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> > > Freeing initrd memory: 2249k freed
> > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> > > Mounted devfs on /dev
> > > VFS: Cannot open root device "rd/0" or 00:00
> > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
> >
> > Can you edit the aboot options from "root=/dev/rd/0" to
> > "root=/dev/ram " or "root=/dev/ram0"? Just edit the iso.
>
> I did this instead by entering the boot command manually using each of these.
> They both fail with the following messages:
Try /dev/rd/initrd too please.
MfG
Goswin
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